Monthly Archives: October 2012

Facebook0 Twitter0 Google+0Total: 0I am a pollster. My organization, CIRCLE, just released a national survey of young adults that shows Obama ahead of Romney among likely voters under 30: 52% to 35%. Pollsters much more prominent than I are under … Continue reading →

Facebook5 Twitter0 Google+0Total: 5An important discussion is underway at Tufts about how to enhance and evaluate the university’s impact on society. Here is my emerging view: A university can have “impact on society” by doing things that benefit people outside … Continue reading →

Facebook10 Twitter0 Google+0Total: 10CIRCLE today released a poll of young people’s views of the election. Our survey, commissioned by the Youth Education Fund, is unique in that it polled 1,695 youth (ages 18-29) in June/July and 1,109 of the same … Continue reading →

Facebook13 Twitter0 Google+0Total: 13Carolyn Lukensmeyer has published Bringing Citizen Voices to the Table. Carolyn is Executive Director of the National Institute for Civil Discourse and founder and former President of AmericaSpeaks. She also has extensive experience in state and federal … Continue reading →

Facebook3 Twitter0 Google+0Total: 3Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, is an opponent of campus speech codes. In today’s New York Times, he argues that these codes “discourage civic engagement” among college students. Lukianoff is entitled … Continue reading →

Facebook2 Twitter0 Google+0Total: 2At their final debate, the two major party candidates seemed to converge on a doctrine that might be called cautious amoralism. All that counts are the economic interests of the United States and the security interests of … Continue reading →

Facebook8 Twitter0 Google+0Total: 8(Woods Hole, MA) With our new report on civic education published recently–and the election coming up–we have been in the news a lot lately. Here’s a sampling of recent coverage: Nora Fleming, Out of School Engagement in … Continue reading →

Facebook10 Twitter0 Google+0Total: 10I am going to Woods Hole, MA, today to speak to the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Science, Technology and Law. I have been asked to brief them on civic education at the college level, but … Continue reading →

Facebook7 Twitter0 Google+0Total: 7We will field a survey immediately after the election that will assess, among other things, whether people voted knowledgeably and in synch with their own values and beliefs. We will ask them their top policy issue, followed … Continue reading →

Facebook6 Twitter0 Google+0Total: 6In the 1600s, the enterprise now called natural science got fully underway. How to define it and determine its limits are controversial questions. Science cannot be limited to experiments (Galileo dropping spheres from the Leaning Tower of … Continue reading →